Tragic: Nigerian-American Former NFL player Arrested for Groceries theft at a store
Robert Nkemdiche, a former first-round NFL draft pick, was arrested last week in Georgia after police allegedly saw him leaving a grocery store with items concealed in his clothing.
According to a police report obtained by TMZ Sports, officers said the former Arizona Cardinals defensive tackle was spotted exiting a Kroger store during a routine check of the business area.
An officer reported seeing the 31-year-old with “many large objects, square and rectangular shapes, consistent with concealed grocery items, inside his sweatpants.”
Police said the officer called for backup as Nkemdiche walked toward a nearby gas station before officers approached him. The report stated that officers made contact with the 6-foot-3, 300-pound former football player and immediately placed him in double-locked handcuffs.
According to authorities, the items were no longer in his pants at the time of detention. However, officers later discovered frozen grocery items, candy bars and almond milk scattered across the parking areas of the Kroger store and the nearby gas station.
Officers returned to the store to verify whether the goods had been stolen. A store representative reportedly told police they did not wish to press charges over the groceries but requested that Nkemdiche be criminally trespassed from the premises.
However, after running his name through the system, officers discovered several outstanding warrants across multiple states, including three in Georgia. Authorities then requested that he be taken into custody. He was subsequently arrested and booked into jail based on the outstanding warrants.
Nkemdiche, who previously played college football for the Ole Miss Rebels, has faced legal troubles in the past. In 2015, he was arrested on dr¥g possession charges following an incident in which he allegedly fell from a fourth-floor hotel window.
Police noted that the grocery items recovered from the parking lot were perishable and had to be discarded.
